Improvement in brackets for supporting shelves



M. D. JONES.

BRACKETS FOR SUPPORTING .SHELVE'S. No.1 71,ZZ6.

Patented. Dec. 21,1875.

To all. whom it may concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

MELVILLE D. JONES, OF BOSTON,M ASSAOHUSETTS.

ll Vl PROVEMENT IN BRACKETS FOR SUPPORTING SHELVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,226, dated December 21, 1875; application filed July 30, 1875.

Be it known that I, MELVILLE D. JoNEs, of Boston, Sufl'olk county, Massachusett have invented a new and useful Improvement in Swinging Shelves, of which'the following is a specification:

- The drawings accompanying this specification represent, in Figure 1, a front View, and in Fig. 2 a cross-section, of a shelf mounted in accordance with my invention.

In these drawings, A A represent two swinging brackets, each of which consists of a base-plate, B, which is fixed permanently to the wall of an apartment, and aswinging arm, G, which is pivoted to the base B by tenons 19, formed upon the latter, entering sockets E created in the former, this mode of pivotingthe two portions of the bracket enabling the outer portion, with whatever it supports, to be removed instantly and readily. F in the drawings represents the shelf, of any desirable form and size, this shelf being supported at each end by one of the swinging arms 0, and resting upon a disk or plate, G, which is pivoted to the arm 0 by a vertical tenon, H.

A shelf supported in this manner is in- V tended to be placed in front of a window for supporting house-plants, and possesses many advantages not pertaining to the usual method. First, at night the shelf and its contents may be swung away from close proximity to the window, and thus be protected, to a certain extent, from danger by frost. Second, this change 'in position of the shelf also enables the curtain to be raised and lowered without interference with or injury to the plants. Third, when the window is to be cleaned the shelf maybe removed entirely by lifting it and the arms 0 G from the baseplates B B, thus enabling free access to be had to the window. Fourth, the shelf may be changed in position during the day, so that the plants said disks, these parts being arranged for joint operation, as shown and set forth.

MELVILLE D. JONES.

Witnesses:

F. CURTIS, W. E. BOARDMAN. 

